The first time I encountered anyone that was talking about things amiss during 9/11 was right after I left the military in '03.
I was trying to find a job and went down to visit my aunt in Austin. My aunt knows a lot of people you wouldn't expect her to know. My sister-in-law once said that she was like Forest Gump in that one sense. She knew Charlie Wilson back in the day and talked about him after that movie came out about him "Charlie Wilson's War". She was also friends with Ann Richards back when she was governor of Texas.
Anyway, my aunt arranged a dinner with some guy who was a pretty important man in the silicon chip world. This guy had pretty impressive pull. He actually got me a direct interview with the bigwigs at AMD just by making a phone call. And it was rather unnerving because the people at AMD pulled me right back into their head offices and were asking me how I knew this guy. They seemed really concerned with my relationship with him and were asking me all these questions about him. I was thinking, "Holy shit, who was that dude?"
When my aunt and I went out to eat with him he was really troubled about what happened on 9/11 and kept saying that things didn't add up. Acted rather agitated.
But 9/11 was chaotic as hell. You guys should have seen the Atlantic fleet at Norfolk get underway. It was pandemonium. I think anything as big as that, coupled with how badly the US government dropped the ball in both predicting it and responding to the beginning of that day, was going to inevitably produce conspiracies.
And that's something that everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, has to admit no matter what your personal views are.
We can all agree, I think, that no matter what really happened about 9/11 that there was going to be conspiracy theories about it. A lot of them. It's inescapable.
I was trying to find a job and went down to visit my aunt in Austin. My aunt knows a lot of people you wouldn't expect her to know. My sister-in-law once said that she was like Forest Gump in that one sense. She knew Charlie Wilson back in the day and talked about him after that movie came out about him "Charlie Wilson's War". She was also friends with Ann Richards back when she was governor of Texas.
Anyway, my aunt arranged a dinner with some guy who was a pretty important man in the silicon chip world. This guy had pretty impressive pull. He actually got me a direct interview with the bigwigs at AMD just by making a phone call. And it was rather unnerving because the people at AMD pulled me right back into their head offices and were asking me how I knew this guy. They seemed really concerned with my relationship with him and were asking me all these questions about him. I was thinking, "Holy shit, who was that dude?"
When my aunt and I went out to eat with him he was really troubled about what happened on 9/11 and kept saying that things didn't add up. Acted rather agitated.
But 9/11 was chaotic as hell. You guys should have seen the Atlantic fleet at Norfolk get underway. It was pandemonium. I think anything as big as that, coupled with how badly the US government dropped the ball in both predicting it and responding to the beginning of that day, was going to inevitably produce conspiracies.
And that's something that everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, has to admit no matter what your personal views are.
We can all agree, I think, that no matter what really happened about 9/11 that there was going to be conspiracy theories about it. A lot of them. It's inescapable.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
